LodgeNet is HD Provider for Future 'Hyatt Place' Properties

Global Hyatt Corp. has designated LodgeNet as sole provider of interactive TV and HD services for Global Hyatt's new upscale select service brand dubbed "Hyatt Place." Under the agreement, LodgeNet will install a Hyatt Place branded, digital-to-the-room HD service in slightly more than 80 properties currently owne

Under the agreement, LodgeNet will install a Hyatt Place branded, digital-to-the-room HD service in slightly more than 80 properties currently owned or managed by Global Hyatt, as well as future Hyatt Place properties (none of which have been built yet).

Each high-end Hyatt Place will be equipped with its own onsite LodgeNet system for delivery of HD broadcast, premium DBS, and VOD motion pictures, (some of them available while they are still in theaters). LodgeNet already provides HD, VOD and interactive services to several other major hotel chains in North America.

The first Hyatt Place property will open later this summer in Lombard, near Chicago, both firms said in a statement.

ESPN and LodgeNet Entertainment have signed a deal enabling the distribution of ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD through LodgeNet's sigNETure HDTV systems. LodgeNet now provides interactive, VOD and HD services (at select properties) to more than one million hotels rooms, serving about 6,000 hotels worldwide, according to

LodgeNet Entertainment--a provider of interactive television and broadband technology to the lodging industry--and LG Electronics USA, are teaming up to provide HD services for hotel chains and high-end lodging facilities. A growing number of hotels currently are investing in flat panel TV, and the inclusion of H

LodgeNet Entertainment has signed a new multiyear licensing agreement with NBC Universal in a content distribution arrangement that will include film titles from Universal Studios, for LodgeNet's platform, sigNETure HDTV.

A key part of the deal is LG’s agreement to incorporate LodgeNet’s interactive terminals into LG’s new models of HD flat-screens, which are specifically designed for lodging facilities and their customers.

Matt Sandvold is senior director of technology and content implementation at LodgeNet Interactive Corporation, which says it currently serves more than 1.9 million hotel rooms representing 9,300 hotel properties worldwide, as well as a network of healthcare facilities in the United States. Sandvold recently spoke with HD Notebook.

LodgeNet Entertainment , a major provider of interactive television and broadband to hotel properties worldwide, said this week that 2006 is shaping up to be the year that HD "accelerates toward critical mass in the lodging industry." The company said in a statement its current and pending customer agreements envision

CBS calls the fusion of the CBS College Sports Network, in partnership with the NCAA and CBSSports.com, “an Interactive vertical advertising network containing the multitude of college athletic properties in the CBS family.”

LodgeNet Entertainment , a major supplier of interactive TV and broadband systems for hotels in North America, and Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems have outlined joint plans to integrate Panasonic plasma HD displays with LodgeNet's HD platform, free-to-guest (FTG), and VOD services. According to both firm